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See Jamie on the TODAY SHOW! TRACKLISTING 'Twentysomething', Jamie's first major label album, was released in Australia in June 2004 and tore down the barriers between pop and jazz and juxtaposed unique arrangements of jazz standards with a handful of his own original compositions and startling piano-led versions of songs by Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Buckley. After a wildly successful promo tour in July the album reached #1 on the Australian jazz charts and #2 on the Australian pop charts. Jamie returned in December to perform for a filmed-for-TV concert in Melbourne's Yarra Valley. Jamie's new album, 'Catching Tales', is certainly the result of a remarkable period in the 25 year old's life. Bursting with all the experiences and new music he has encountered on his travels. Alongside a beautiful cover of Doves 'Catch The Sun' Jamie couples his trademark takes on jazz standards with several self-penned tracks. This time around, he also experimented with collaborations. He worked on one track, 'Get Your Way', with renowned hip-hop DJ and Gorillaz member, Dan The Automator, while Ben, Jamie's brother, plays the electric bass on most tracks and, as he did on Twentysomething, co-wrote several of the albums original tracks. In addition, 'Catching Tales' features singer-songwriter Ed Harcourt, a collaborator on one of Jamie's own favourite album tracks, the sublime 'Back ToThe Ground'. "It's a classic touring song about when you get home and you readjust to life," Jamie remembers. "We literally caned a bottle of wine and jammed this blues song. He got on the guitar, I got on the Wurlitzer and we wrote the song within an hour. He was so inspirational, his impact is far more than just that one song and I definitely want to continue to work with him." It fits perfectly on an album where usual musical constraints just don't apply and the possibilities of jazz, dance, hip hop and pop are challenged and attacked with fresh ears. Propelled by Jamie's sheer enthusiasm at starting all over again, 'Chasing Tales' marks the end of two mad years but the beginning of yet another chapter in Jamie Cullum's extraordinary life.
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http://www.brokebackmountain.com e-card TRACKLISTING Brokeback Mountain soundtrack features a stunning score by Gustavo Santaolalla (The Motorcycle Diaries, 21 Grams) and new songs recorded by Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson and Rufus Wainwright. The new film from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee, starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. An epic love story set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, Brokeback Mountain tells the story of two young men - a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy - who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. |
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e-card TRACKLISTING GRAMMY winning pianist/singer Diana Krall has just completed her first ever full-length Christmas album Christmas Songs, Featuring The Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. Co-produced by Krall with Tommy LiPuma the album features the talents of renowned arranger and bassist John Clayton (Count Basie, Duke Ellington), guitarist Anthony Wilson (Chris Botti, Michael Buble), drummer Jeff Hamilton (Rosemary Clooney, Natalie Cole) and bassist Bob Hurst (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Saturday Night Live). The Clayton/Hamilton Orchestra accompanies Krall for seasonal standards, "Let It Snow," "I'll Be Home For Christmas," "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" and "Jingle Bells." Legendary composer Johnny Mandel contributes a string arrangement to "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep." Rounding out the album are previously released versions of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" and "Christmas Time Is Here". Last year, Diana's The Girl in the Other Room was released to great critical acclaim. The album, which featured six original compositions by Diana and Elvis Costello, is now Gold in Australia and still charting in the ARIA Top 20 Jazz Charts. |
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ARTISTS In two years since the LIVE AT SIDE ON (rf073) recording the classic McGann trio turned quartet, with the advent of Alder, continues to unfold the promise of this exciting partnership, producing a powerful yet subtle statement. On BLUES FOR PABLO TOO we have McGann's alto distilled to an even headier essence, the richness of Alder's tone and the propulsive partnership of Swanton and Pochée. Beautifully recorded with songs by Roger Frampton, Gai Bryant, Alder and McGann - the title track and 'Malaga' were written for the 2003 Sydney festival in conjunction with the Picasso exhibition - and the standard 'it's the talk of the town'. Long awaited, BLUES FOR PABLO TOO is an exciting addition to McGann's body of work, while demonstrating the ongoing creative energy of the band. |
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ARTISTS Tim Stevens Trio follows its widely acclaimed debut, Nine Open Questions (RF 068), with an album that extends and exceeds the band's previous achievements. Three Friends In Winter is a recording that demonstrates in a single stroke the reluctance of this protean group to rest on its laurels or to repeat itself according to formula. Challenging and adventurous, this is a program of four free improvisations and one composed selection, in which the trio known for 'impeccable good taste' (Ted Nettelbeck, Music Forum) and 'interaction [that] borders on the telepathic' (Larry Hollis, Cadence Magazine) invites risk and courts danger, but produces that rare thing: an authentic document of uncompromising musicianship and commitment. Three Friends In Winter adapts its title from a tradition in Asian painting of depicting pine, bamboo, and plum, the 'three friends of winter.' The central three movements of the disc are collected as a suite based very loosely on this idea. Preceding them at the disc's opening is 'July,' a very spare, quiet, and reflective movement that displays the band's superb control of sound and material; the album concludes with the title track, a Stevens original. |
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http://www.rufusrecords.com.au ARTISTS The 5+2 Brass Ensemble boasts a unique line-up comprising two trumpets, French horn, trombone, bass trombone, double bass and drum kit, and features some of Melbourne's most fascinating jazz and classical musicians including, trumpeter/composer Peter Knight, bass trombone virtuoso Adrian Sherriff, double bassist Anita Hustas, and former Australian Opera principal horn, Geoff Collinson. Together, they produce a sound described in reviews as "lush" and "intriguing". Their debut album, Invisible Cities and Other Works, traverses terrain ranging from sublimely melodic extended jazz compositions, to impressionistic soundscapes rendered in textures unique to 5+2's unusual instrumentation and approach. The album includes an extended suite, composed by Peter Knight, inspired by the dreamscapes conveyed in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. Peter Knight's 5 + 2 Ensemble will be launching 'Invisible Cities and other works' at Bennett's Lane, Melbourne on November 22 preceded by a live to air and interview on Andrew Ford's Music Show, Radio National, Saturday November 19. |
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Occasion is the follow up to Harry Connick Jr's critically acclaimed 2003 piano album on Marsalis Music, Other Hours (Connick on Piano), which was chosen as one of the New Yorker's top ten jazz albums of 2003. The new album is a series of duos with saxophonist and Marsalis Music label head Branford Marsalis. Like Other Hours, the acclaimed first album in the series, Occasion reminds us that Connick, who has also made his mark as a vocalist and actor, is at his core a commanding pianist and composer. Whereas the earlier volume featured quartet music, Connick's new disc is more intimate. Connick likens the sound of his piano and Marsalis' saxophone to a "spirited, spiritual game of tag where home base is but a melody away". The session was both informal and spontaneous which allowed Connick to come to the studio prepared with a few songs in hand and then let the experience of being with his friend and fellow musician inspire him to write more. The twelve compositions that comprise Other Hours were originally written for the 2001 Broadway musical 'Thou Shalt Not' and were nominated for a Tony Award. In collaboration with Susan Stroman and David Thompson, Connick conceived Thou Shalt Not as a resetting in the steamy atmosphere of post-World War II New Orleans of Emile Zola's classic 1868 novel Therese Raquin. "While situations in the play provided the bases for the lyrics, I liked the melodies so much that I also wrote with the intention of performing each tune as a stand-alone song." -Harry Connick Jr.
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ARTISTS TRACKLISTING Jazz broadcaster Jim McLeod says in his notes to this important CD: "There must be hundreds of special performances over my many years of broadcasting and listening to music that have left an impression on me, but then there are a few which are so special that they never leave me. Of all the many concerts that I have been fortunate to experience, none has left such lasting memory as the performance we have on this CD - Ten Part Invention at the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz on 31 st October, 1999. The Wangaratta Festival of Jazz is the major jazz event in Australia, and for this concert the atmosphere in the main venue, the Wangaratta Town Hall, was electric. But this was different. There was a sadness around, not mournful, but reflective of years of joyous creativity. Everybody knew that a vital member, Roger Frampton, was dying from a brain tumour - the disfiguring of his body making it all the more distressing. He did die three months later only 51 years old. The program of Ten Part Invention for the concert at Wangaratta in 1999 was of Roger Frampton compositions, some of the best known works in the band's repertoire. The whole band was in high spirits. These remarkable musicians were playing their tribute to their own esteemed musical collaborator. The music felt as though Ten Part Invention had reached its peak; almost that it had existed to perform this one great, moving, exciting performance. It certainly was the closing of a chapter." MARKETING PLANS |
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